{"id":47465,"date":"2016-08-30T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-lessons-i-learned-working-with-mother-teresa\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:29:02","slug":"lecciones-que-aprendi-trabajando-con-la-madre-teresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/lecciones-que-aprendi-trabajando-con-la-madre-teresa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons I Learned Working with Mother Teresa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BALTIMORE, Maryland<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 30, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Sean Callahan remembers what it was like to work with Mother Teresa. &#8220;In those days my vocabulary consisted of two words, &#8216;Yes Mother, Yes Mother, Yes Mother,'&#8221; says the Chief Operations Officer for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Vice President of Caritas Internationalis.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160829\/402330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160829\/402330<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 4, 2016<\/span>, Blessed Mother Teresa will become Saint Teresa of Kolkata.\u00a0 Callahan knew her when he was CRS&#8217; East India Zonal Director in <span class=\"xn-location\">Kolkata<\/span> (then called <span class=\"xn-location\">Calcutta<\/span>) beginning in 1994.\u00a0 He continued a longstanding relationship between CRS and Mother Teresa that dated to a few years after she and her Missionaries of Charity began to bring care and love to people who were infirmed, poor, and dying in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was very petite and spoke in a soft voice so I was always leaning into hear what she was saying,&#8221; says Callahan who has a photo of Mother Teresa, the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, on his desk at CRS headquarters in <span class=\"xn-location\">Baltimore<\/span>. &#8220;Often, she would wrap her hands around your hands and hold you there while she spoke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Callahan arrived in <span class=\"xn-location\">Kolkata<\/span> there were 3 million people living on the streets, 1 million of them were children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need for help in <span class=\"xn-location\">Kolkata<\/span> was immense at that time,&#8221; says Callahan.\u00a0&#8220;With so many people living on the streets, the desperation and sickness was everywhere.\u00a0 Mother started the Center for Dying because she couldn&#8217;t let the last moments of these peoples&#8217; lives be lived alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CRS&#8217; began working in <span class=\"xn-location\">India<\/span> in\u00a01946 to help the local Church in <span class=\"xn-location\">Bombay<\/span> provide food to people recovering from World War II. A decade later, Msgr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Alfred Schneider<\/span>, then CRS&#8217; director in <span class=\"xn-location\">India<\/span>, heard of a nun serving the poor in <span class=\"xn-location\">Kolkata<\/span>. He soon met Mother Teresa at an informal school CRS supported and visited her Home for the Dying set up in warehouses. Schneider then raised the money for Mother Teresa&#8217;s first ambulance and arranged for her to speak to a group of Catholic women in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, her first international publicity.<\/p>\n<p>CRS was soon working with the Missionaries of Charity on child feeding programs and assistance to families in <span class=\"xn-location\">Calcutta<\/span>. The relationship grew as the Missionaries of Charity became CRS&#8217; largest partner in <span class=\"xn-location\">East India<\/span>. Sisters were assigned to work with CRS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember one day showing up to a meeting with Mother Teresa and telling her about a man I had seen in the middle of the street who looked in real distress, without clothes and very frail,&#8221; Callahan says.\u00a0 &#8220;Her immediate reaction was to ask me where he was and what time I saw him so she could send the ambulance.\u00a0 Then she gave me a phone number and told me if I ever see anything like that again to call that number.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the way she worked and I was relieved to know I could get help for some of the people I often encountered in those days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another time I received a call from Mother Teresa who had heard there was a flood in <span class=\"xn-location\">Bangladesh<\/span> and asked if I could bring supplies in trucks because the sisters there were asking for them,&#8221; he recalls.\u00a0 &#8220;I explained that to do that would require special permissions from the governor of the state to take the food and emergency supplies across the border.\u00a0 She asked, &#8216;What do I need to do?&#8217; and I told her she needed to get the permissions.\u00a0&#8216;Okay,&#8217; she said, &#8216;You get the trucks, I&#8217;ll get the permissions and we&#8217;ll meet in two hours.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s what happened.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t just send people out, she did the work herself.\u00a0 So sure enough, we crossed the border with our supplies and sisters from the Missionaries of Charity as passengers,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Illness forced Callahan to leave <span class=\"xn-location\">India<\/span> in 1995. As he was arranging his departure, he told Mother Teresa and she said she wanted to visit him on an upcoming trip to <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>. Rearranging a carefully-planned itinerary, she came to CRS headquarters in May, 1996, the year before she died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We felt we were in the presence of a saint,&#8221; says Callahan. &#8220;She gave her life to helping people in their most difficult conditions and created a mission for religions and lay persons to follow in her footsteps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Catholic Relief Services<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>. The agency alleviates suffering and provides assistance to people in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>CRS&#8217; relief and development work is accomplished through\u00a0<i>programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>\u00a0For more information, visit\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.crs.org<\/a><i>\u00a0or<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crsespanol.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.crsespanol.org<\/a><i>\u00a0and follow Catholic Relief Services on social media:\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CatholicReliefServices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><i>,<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Twitter at @<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicRelief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CatholicRelief<\/a><i>,<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>@<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRSnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CRSnews<\/a>\u00a0and @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRSnoticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CRSnoticias<\/a><i>,<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/catholicreliefservices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/catholicrelief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pinterest<\/a><i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/catholicrelief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Multi-Media Resources for Journalist &amp; editors:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hi-res photo gallery of Mother Teresa with captions:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photos.crs.org\/callahanmotherteresa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.crs.org\/callahanmotherteresa<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>Password to download:\u00a0<b>photos<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Video interviews of CRS staff and partners who worked with Mother Teresa:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLt5PsPjJAk-33y21kjcmWr3xUkkmObzU9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLt5PsPjJAk-33y21kjcmWr3xUkkmObzU9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Online Tools:<br \/><\/b>CRS Online Media Center:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crs.org\/media-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">crs.org\/media-center<br \/>Follow us on Twitter <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRSnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@CRSnews<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/10.86.178.63:2011\/Users\/swalters\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/Temporary%20Internet%20Files\/Content.Outlook\/28IGPR3V\/crs.org\/media-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WooCRS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@WooCRS<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/10.86.178.63:2011\/Users\/swalters\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/Temporary%20Internet%20Files\/Content.Outlook\/28IGPR3V\/crs.org\/media-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicRelief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@CatholicRelief<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgbf5dleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; 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